The Mysore Tribes and Castes

Abstract

IT is now nearly thirty years since the late Sir Herbert Risley initiated the systematic ethnographical survey of the larger Indian Provinces and certain native States. Much useful work has been produced on the lines then laid down for the work of the survey, notably the “Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces”, by the late Mr. Russell, who was fortunately able to complete his four volumes before he so tragically fell a victim to the War. We have here Vol. 2 (which seems to have preceded Vol. 1) of a similar work on the tribes and castes of Mysore, taking us from Agasas to Budbudkis in a volume of 559 pages. A similar range in the records of the Bombay ethnographical survey (“Tribes and Castes of Bombay”, 1920–22. Enthoven) occupies only half this space, so that the Mysore records, before completion, threaten to fill many volumes.

The Mysore Tribes and Castes.

By the late H. V. Nanjundayya Rao Bahadur L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer. (Published under the Auspices of the Mysore University, Mysore.) Vol. Pp. vii + 559 + 80 plates. (Bangalore: Mysore Government Press, 1928.) 12.8 rupees; 20s.